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Last week the American Tort Reform Foundation released its annual Judicial Hellholes report. Each year, the organization lists the Top Ten court systems in the US it deems most in need of cost controls. This year, New York City and Albany came in at number 6. The foundation argues lawmakers are too beholden to the trial lawyer lobby to enact real reform. Another problem: A fair number of legislators are also lawyers and personally benefit from the status quo.

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